First published on CBC Radio, Information Morning, June 2, 2008-09-23 So, someone has calculated that being a stay-at-home parent is worth roughly $160,000 dollars per year? Well, that’s great! After 13 years at home raising my three children, I guess somebody owes me just over two million dollars. Who is it? My husband? He doesn’t [...]

CBC got me thinking this morning. I’m sure Sheila Rogers would be happy to know that. In honour of Mother’s Day, Sounds Like Canada examined different aspects of being a housewife in the 21st century, interviewing some minstrel moms who write and perform music for money and sanity, and talked to a producer on her [...]

I want to tell you about my kids. Everything they do and say teaches me something. Parenting is the stage of life where there’s barely time to stand still and fart, let alone contemplate the meaning of life, but somehow I manage to glean wisdom from daily experiences, and I wanted to tell you. Maybe [...]